Shahab-6 is the designation of an alleged and possibly fictional Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

ian long-range ballistic missile

Ballistic missile

A ballistic missile is a missile that follows a sub-orbital ballistic flightpath with the objective of delivering one or more warheads to a predetermined target. The missile is only guided during the relatively brief initial powered phase of flight and its course is subsequently governed by the...

 project alleged to exist by Israeli sources, and supposed to be an extension of the Shahab ("meteor") series of missiles, and first reported to the world by Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is the current Prime Minister of Israel. He serves also as the Chairman of the Likud Party, as a Knesset member, as the Health Minister of Israel, as the Pensioner Affairs Minister of Israel and as the Economic Strategy Minister of Israel.Netanyahu is the first and, to...

 in 1997. To this date, no evidence exists of such a missile series. While Shahab-1 to -3 missiles have been produced and deployed, Iran has officially denied the existence of any further military missile projects, acknowledging only a program to develop a satellite

Satellite

In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavour. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....

 launch vehicle. All information about the Shahab-6 comes from foreign, namely Israeli, sources and its existence is entirely speculation. There is no proof that the Shahab-4, Shahab-5, and Shahab-6 missiles were ever planned and no proof that they exist, since being first alleged by Israeli sources in the 1990's.

Capabilities

No reliable estimates of the Shahab-6's capability exist. According to Israeli intelligence, both the Shahab-5 and Shahab-6 would have a range of 3,000–5,000 kilometers..

Variants

Shahab is the name of a class of Iranian missiles, service time of 1988–present, which comes in three known and confirmed variants: Shahab-1, Shahab-2

Shahab-2

The Shahab-2 is the successor to the Iranian Shahab-1 missile.The missile has a CEP of 50 m. On November 2, 2006, Iran fired unarmed missiles to begin 10 days of military simulations. Iranian state television reported "dozens of missiles were fired including Shahab-2 and Shahab-3 missiles...

, Shahab-3

Shahab-3

The Shahab-3 is a medium-range ballistic missile developed by Iran and based on the Nodong-1. The Shahab-3 has a range of ; a MRBM variant can now reach...

, while the Shahab-4

Shahab-4

The Shahab-4 aka IRIS liquid propelled missile is an alleged, and possibly fictional, programme for Iran's first missile to bring satellites into orbit....

, Shahab-5

Shahab-5

Shahab-5 is an alleged Iranian long-range ballistic missile. The name Shahab is a class of Iranian missiles, with a service time of 1988 to present, which comes in six variants: Shahab-1, Shahab-2, Shahab-3, Shahab-4, Shahab-5, Shahab-6.-See also:...

, Shahab-6 were alleged to exist by Western and Israeli sources in the early 1990's but these allegations were not proven.